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Calling all Rubikubistes

Rubik’s Cube was a 1980s worldwide puzzle-game phenomenon. The advert below is a promotional offer from le Cercle Française du Cube to send off for Cube goodies which included a tee-shirt, book, badge, sticker, and another of Rubik’s mind-challenging puzzles – the Tower of Babel (Babylone Tower).

Hello TVTA, Anthony, The cool thing (amongst many) with TCR sets was it’s ability to let you purchase spare parts and “Tune” your cars. There were replacement motors, gear cogs to improve the motor performance, various grades of tires and you could even replace the electrical pic-up plates on the bottom of the cars. It was almost like an Indycar Pit Lane! Plus you had dozens of body shells to swap around too.

Hi FT. Yeah, I think it was one of my brothers who had the TCR and ended up buying extra track from TRU. They were mostly straights and some small bends. I also remember the body shells you could switch.

The body shells were really good. They were detailed and you could see exactly what car they were, not just generic bodies. I had World Rally car models on mine and a Ford Mustang “Jam Car”. TCR was just great.

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